Severe storms possible later this week in the north-central US

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AccuWeather's Guy Pearson was live on the AccuWeather Network on March 10 to discuss the severe weather threat later this week in the north-central U.S.

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00:00All right, right now we take in to Houston, Texas right now where it is bright and beautiful,

00:05but we have some changes heading here as well. Before I bring in Guy, I want to show you

00:10the pattern that we're looking at. We're going to head to the Pacific. We have two storms that

00:15we're tracking. Storm number one, that'll be coming into California. When? Later tonight and

00:20tomorrow. That's going to set the stage for our severe weather maker, which is out in the Central

00:25Pacific Wednesday into Thursday. It comes into California. A lot of dry air now. That system's

00:31really going to moisten things up, and then by the time we get into Friday, watch as everything

00:36moves across the area. Look at that upper low coming into California Wednesday into Thursday,

00:43and then by Friday, there it is across the Central United States, and this poses huge problems. With

00:50that, I want to bring in AccuWeather severe weather expert Guy Pearson from our Severe

00:54Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas. You know, Guy, we just had our map discussion, what, about 45

01:01minutes ago. Right now, we're not going to go to a high risk yet, but we think we're going to,

01:06but let's begin when you look at that upper level energy pattern on Friday. What do you see that

01:13concerns you? Yeah, after the upper level weather pattern here as we're looking at this is coming

01:22out sort of negatively tilted, and what we mean by that is it's got a little bit of a bend to it.

01:27Instead of just sort of pushing along and staying linear like we saw last week, this has got a

01:32little bit more turn to it, and what that does is then allows different directions of wind at

01:38different layers of the atmosphere, which is what we really need to be able to have, you know,

01:42tornadoes form in general and especially a larger number of tornadoes to form, and so with this,

01:48it's really going to ramp up with time and certainly as it starts to eject out on Friday

01:54is going to be the main concern and player. One of the things you had mentioned before, and again,

01:58we are mentioning that we believe there's the potential for at least two dozen tornadoes,

02:03if not more, but the other thing that concerns you is that you believe these

02:07thunderstorms are going to be fast moving and linger well past sunset.

02:12Yep, certainly. With this particular setup, it does look like it moves along,

02:16probably a little bit faster than last week's. Last week's system sort of, it was developing

02:21as it moved across, and I think this one is going to actually move a little bit, you know,

02:26faster along than maybe the last one did. So the storms themselves will be moving very fast

02:31at a pretty good forward speed, and certainly that piece of energy as it rotates out,

02:37these storms will continue into the overnight hours, so you're going to have to, you know,

02:41in the particular areas as we get past sunset, probably certainly eastern Missouri into Illinois,

02:48western Tennessee, certainly into Arkansas, and that whole area there, we're still going to have

02:54to, you're going to have to be very vigilant when it comes to the nighttime hours Friday

02:58if that severe weather is not past you yet. Really quickly, Guy, let's talk about the threat

03:03on Saturday. Yep, Saturday we still have the trailing cold front, and so while the main

03:08dynamics to the north, the best, you know, temperature, dew point, all the other ingredients

03:15that we need are still trailing the southern end of that line, and so you're going to have storms

03:19that continue, and certainly during the day on Saturday, across portions of the south there,

03:25you're really going to have a continued chance of tornadoes as well as, you know,

03:30gusty winds, maybe some hailers as well. AccuWeather severe weather expert Guy Pearson.

03:35Guy, thanks for joining us here on AccuWeather Early.

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